When the DVD format came I wanted a player on my room - which I got on a birthday later that year. Then came the video games with support for DVD and I never looked back. Who needed a standalone DVD player?! Well, now that I have an old CRT-TV in our bedroom - and all the main consoles is plugged in out in the living room the old DVD player became useful again. There's just one problem. Or two, to be precise.
1) It's larger than a intermediate village. It's at least 50 cm (~20 inches) wide and 40 cm (~16 inches) deep.
2) It makes more noise than the early 360 consoles. We often have to crank up the volume to insane levels because otherwise the movie would drown in the sounds from the DVD player.
My girlfriend said to me last night "just get a new one, do it first thing in the morning" and I realized that I should. Sometimes I just get so used to what I have that I don't think about replacing stuff just for convenience.
So - I went out on an electronic shopping tour in pursuit of something better than my current setup (it plays region 2 DVD's and no other kinds of media, with AV-cables out). I bought this one:
It's almost as small as a Mac Mini and can output HD, it's got internal HDD for recording and can take most formats through USB. The price including shipping? $40. This is going to be great, we will be able to hear what's going on in our movies!
